Hahndorf Academy is reassessing the Adelaide Hills Arts Prize and will not be running it for 2023. We want to consider the theme and our funding strategy for the arts prize money. We love this arts prize and know that many SA artists do too, so we will get back to you as soon as we can. All enquiries or comments can be sent to Rachel McElwee, Director of Hahndorf Academy. rachel@hahndorfacademy.org.au
The Heysen Prize for Landscape will be on for 2024.
Adelaide Hills Landscape Arts Prize 2021
a biennial arts prize celebrating
the Adelaide Hills
presented by Hahndorf Academy
ADELAIDE HILLS LANDSCAPE ARTS PRIZE – $10,000
WINNER – Sonya UNwin Windswept
The aged Apple Orchard at Lenswood extracts something deep within. A quiet consciousness envelops on arrival, thought becomes poetic and colour becomes a technical tool. Atop the Lenswood hill, overwhelming beauty is significant. I launched into creating paintings en plein air in February 2021, immersing myself in the entire detail. By July I had passed my apprenticeship and August found me hitting my stride. Gradually the detail diffused and significant heroines emerged in the landscape; wind energy, solar power, air, rain and the soil on which I created my paintings. I have based my painting upon these protagonists.
HIGHLY COMMENDED - Henry Wolff When the earth crumbles and the sky collapses above me' (from the project CARE)
The ongoing project ‘CARE’ navigates subjective experiences of care, compassion, and love to share with viewers tender gestural expressions of human connection. Fostering virtue and an ethical consideration of the individual’s responsibility and embeddedness in society, ‘CARE’ asks people to consider their own relationships and context to one another and place. Here we witness an act of cross-generational intimacy – as a mother is embraced by her young children. This act takes place within the backyard of their Adelaide Hills home. Domestic yet wild, this is their first family home. Grounded by natural space, the figures gesture suggests structural form. It’s as if they might be building a house from their own bodies, alluding to processes involved with creating a home. This work articulates a different perspective on landscape, a more intimate one that considers our impact and connection to place.
Adelaide Hills Landscape Arts Prize 2021 judges
Naomi Fallon - Director of the Walkway Gallery and Arts & Cultural Development Facilitator with the Tatiara District Council.
Tansy Curtin - Curator of International Art pre-1980, Art Gallery of South Australia
FINALIST ARTISTS 2021
Sonya Unwin, Henry Wolff, Carole Bann, David Braun, Liz Butler, Graeme Charlton, Elizabeth Close, Daniel Connell, Philip David, Alex Frayne, Harriet Geater-Johnson, Cecilia Gunnarsson, Marieka Hambledon, Sally Heinrich, Alexandra Hirst, Anthony Ingram, John Lacey, Jean Kenny, Roland Weight, Simone Linder-Patton, Lisa Losada, Sarah McDonald, Phillip McGillivray-Tory, Christopher Meadows, Romany Mollison, Robert Roennfeldt, Regine Schwarzer, Cynthia Schwertsik, Lise Temple, Datsun Tran, Sheila Whittam, Georgina Willoughby, Simone Wise.
Hahndorf Academy, acknowledges that we work and walk upon the ancient lands of the Peramangk Nation and pay our respect to Peramangk Elders past and living today as the traditional custodians of this ancient Warta.
PREVIOUS PRIZES
Adelaide Hills Landscape Arts Prize 2019
presented by Hahndorf Academy and Beyond Ink
ADELAIDE HILLS LANDSCAPE ARTS PRIZE – $5,000
WINNER – Joseph Häxan, Heavy Rain, Then Mist in the Conifer Garden
HIGHLY COMMENDED – SOLO EXHIBITION AT HAHNDORF ACADEMY
WINNER – Andrew Stattmann, Piccadilly Valley 2018-2019
PEOPLE’S CHOICE PRIZE – ARTIST RESIDENCY AT THE PAINTBOX STUDIO
WINNER – Paul Whitehead, Makin Hay
JUDGES
Margaret Hancock Davis is Senior Curator at JamFactory.
Kate Moskwa is the Chief Executive of the SALA (South Australian Living Artists) Festival.
FINALIST ARTISTS 2019
Janet Ayliffe, Alice Blanch, David Braun, Liz Butler, Neville Cichon, Ed Condon, James Dodd, Penny Dowie, Anna Durovka, Cecilia Gunnarsson, Rachel Harris, Joseph Haxan, Adrian Headland, Lynn Elzinga Henry, Marek Herbert, Ross Hill, Caroline Johnson, Louise Johnston, Gareth Kelsey Evans, Jean Kenny, Sarah McDonald, Gerry King, Marlene Kingdom, Cristina Metelli, Romany Mollison, Monika Morgenstern, Kasper Schmidt Mumm, Tim O’Shea, Sonja Porcaro, Suzie Riley, Colin Rogers, Katie Sandison, Cynthia Schwertsik, Nicola Semmens, Jane Skeer, Andrew Stattmann, Lise Temple, Roland Weight, Paul Whitehead, Sheila Whittam, Mardi Zeunert
Adelaide Hills Landscape Arts Prize 2017
ADELAIDE HILLS LANDSCAPE ARTS PRIZE – $2,000
WINNER – Laura Wills, Fall
Overlaid into a map of Adelaide and Mount Lofty Rangers, this is an interpretation of Morialta Falls. Morialta Conservation Park is a protected area 10 km north-east of Adelaide city centre. It is part of the River Torrens catchment and set in a rugged bush environment, with narrow gorges and three waterfalls, bounded by steep ridges and cliffs.
The Adelaide Hills are a special place for me. I grew up in there, in Piccadilly and in Crafers West and my mum now lives in Stirling. I went to school there too, so many adventures were had. I now live at the bottom of the hills in Tusmore, and regularly hike and mountain bike in them. Morialta First Falls is a favourite walk for our family, I created this work when I was researching Adelaide creeks and waterways. I am interested in the relationship indigenous peoples had with them, the colonial settlers and present day relationships. Who owns the creeks and whose responsibility is it to look after them. – Laura Wills
HIGHLY COMMENDED – $500 Gift Prize from The Paint Box studio art supplies
WINNER – Alice Blanch, The Silent Wander
JUDGES
Naomi Fallon is the Director of the Walkway Gallery, Arts & Cultural Development Facilitator with the Tatiara District Council and Country Arts SA.
Hugo Michell established Hugo Michell Gallery in Beulah Park, South Australia in 2008 and has grown the gallery to be highly respected within the Australian art scene.
FINALIST ARTISTS 2017
Ben Goode, Marek Herbut, Sheila Whittam, Deborah Cantrill, Alan Ramachandran, Jean Kenny, Eugene Casey, Alice Blanch, Anna Durovka, Alison Mitchell, Tim Thomson, Laura Wills, Philip David, Donna Chess, Adrian Headland, Imogen Porteous, Sonya Moyle, Margaret Lillywhite, Bridgitte Williams, Nina Frigault, Susie Riley, Donovan Christie, Ursula Kiessling, Sally Gibson-Dore, Andrea Wyatt